Marina Cantacuzino

Award-winning journalist and founder of The Forgiveness Project, a UK-based charity that uses the stories of victims and perpetrators to explore how ideas around forgiveness, reconciliation and restorative justice can be used to impact positively on people's lives.

Empathy

Marina is an award-winning journalist who in 2003, in response to the imminent invasion of Iraq, embarked on a personal project collecting stories in words and portraits of people who had lived through violence, tragedy or injustice and sought forgiveness rather than revenge. As a result Marina founded, The Forgiveness Project, a UK-based charity that uses the stories of victims and perpetrators to explore how ideas around forgiveness, reconciliation and restorative justice can be used to impact positively on people’s lives. In 2012 she spoke at the UN about her work and is a contributor to the film documentary Beyond Right and Wrong. She also teaches about the Trauma Cycle and runs workshops exploring concepts of forgiveness and restorative storytelling. She has written two books ‘The Forgiveness Project: stories for a vengeful age’ and ‘Forgiveness is really strange.